Referee:Andre Marriner - fourth
outing in a Newcastle fixture this season, following from the 2-2 draw at
Reading and home losses to Manchester City (1-3) and Reading again (1-2).

Attendance:
50,703 including a miserly 610 Stokies. Among the onlookers was Wigan boss
Roberto Martinez, checking up on the black and whites ahead of our trip to the
DW Stadium on Sunday.

Goals

Half
time: Magpies 0 Potters 0

67 mins
An overhit cross from Mathieu Debuchy was cleared from forward from the left
back position by Shotton and fell to Cameron Jerome on edge of the centre. The
striker slipped past Tiote's challenge and strode forward before finding Walters
in a supporting run to his left.

The Ireland international took the ball into the left corner of the United area
and checked inside as Tiote caught him up and lunged forward, knocking Walters
off his standing foot. A clear penalty, Walters blasted the spot kick home with
ease, sending Elliot the wrong way.
0-1

72 mins With the huddle of Potters fans belting out a chorus of
"Delilah", Whelan inexplicably passed the ball back towards his goal
from a central position midway in his own half. Gouffran reached it first but
was dispossessed as Begovic hurtled from his goal to edge of the box and hacked
clear.

That half-clearance fell into the path of the advancing Sissoko and he made for
goal, with Begovic standing his ground just inside the box. Before the Newcastle
player reached him though, a pair of Potters defenders caught up and one shoved
him in the back, sending him toppling into the area.

A free kick was correctly awarded and after some delay, Yohan Cabaye took
two paces back and with the minimum of fuss flighted a perfect right footed
effort in off the crossbar. Magnifique. 1-1

90+2 mins Haidara
and Gutierrez chugged forward down the United left but when the former made an
overlapping run, the latter turned infield and found Sissoko on the edge of the
City box. With a posse of defenders round him and his back to goal, the
Frenchman played a pass back to Campbell and he in turn took a touch and sent it
sideways right, with Cabaye dummying.

Falling to Marveaux, the substitute hesitated until a gap ahead of him opened up
and then looped a forward pass through to an unmarked and onside Papiss Cisse.
The Newcastle number 9 knocked the ball up with his left foot and then netted
from eight yards with a flat volley. Anyone as sad as us, may have been reminded
of Kevin Keegan's goal from Mick Martin's pass away to Rotherham back in October
1982 2-1
Full time: Magpies 2
Potters 1

We
Said

Alan Pardew said:
""To be honest, I think we are done. You have got to get 40
points, of course, but we are now seven points from that with nine games
left, and you would expect this team to follow through with the standard it
has got now to be able to do that.

"But the bigger picture is to finish strongly like Everton (last
season) and take it into next year, and we are showing some good signs in
terms of doing that.

"We are looking no further than Thursday night because we could have a
really special night here on Thursday now. We have got a great opportunity
in that competition. We are in the last 16 in Europe.

"We have had to battle through too many games - that competition is too
many games for a Premier League team, I'm never going to change my opinion
on that.

"But we are down to the real nitty-gritty now. We have got a real
quality team coming on Thursday and our fans are well-educated enough to
know that it will be tough for us and we are going to need every one of them
in here to make the atmosphere such that we squeeze through.

"Papiss (Cisse), I think, would be the first to tell you he was
awful today. He didn't do anything, really, to influence other than doing
well on some defensive issues for us.

"But then the moment comes. It's an eye-of-the-needle pass from (Sylvain)
Marveaux, which he has (the ability to produce). The ball pops up and
most strikers would snatch at that.

"But he let it come all the way down and finished it and in the 92nd
minute, that's not easy to do, trust me.

""People get them mixed up sometimes, they talk about the spirit
of the side and 'You must have a fantastic spirit to come back from a goal
down'.

"You need world-class players. You need a world-class player to put
that in the top corner from that free-kick to give you a foundation to win
the game."

They
Said

The tramp in the tracksuit commented:

"He's (Papiss Cisse) pushed
Marc Wilson in the face and he's slapped Ryan (Shawcross). He shouldn't have
been on the pitch.

"The performance will give everybody a lot of heart but the result is
devastating and you are distraught after the game because we didn't deserve
that. The lads have done smashing. It's a very good away display and we looked
dangerous all game on the break.

"All the supporters who came will be devastated, like we are, because
they've seen their team compete and get nothing for their efforts. It's
frustrating and I'm absolutely gutted. It hurts. Having taken the lead, we have
gifted them the equaliser because I thought they had run out of steam and if
anything we should have been next to score.

The whole team is disappointed and it's been the story of our season away from
home. By hook or by crook, we have shot ourselves in the foot or not seen games
out, but you cannot fault the effort and commitment. I'm so disappointed for
them because they haven't half put a shift in."

"We are 11th in the Premier League with nine games remaining and that isn't
bad for Stoke City."

Stats

There were Premier League debuts in this game for both Massadio Haidara
and Adam Campbell, extending the total of players to have featured for
Newcastle in that competition to 181.

Cisse's late winner saw United reach the 40 goal mark in the Premier
League this season, matching their final total in the relegation campaign of
2008/09. Since then, both top-flight seasons have seen us find the net 56
times.

We've now won three and lost three of the six Premier League games that have
following our Europa League excursions into the Europe on the previous
Thursday:

For the third successive home league game, Newcastle recovered from falling
behind to claim victory and once again conjured up a stoppage time winner to
delight supporters who wisely opted not to beat the traffic.

Making seven changes from the side who ground out a scoreless draw in Russia on
Thursday, Alan Pardew was without both Shola Ameobi and Hatem Ben Arfa, but
boosted by the return of Papiss Cisse from illness.

A drab first half saw neither goalkeeper seriously called into action with
Cisse looking below par and the only efforts of note from Yohan Cabaye and Yoan
Gouffran, the latter seeing him contrive to lift an effort over the Leazes
crossbar from barely seven yards.

Opting to retain the same lineup for the second half, Alan Pardew watched his
side go through the same process once again, enjoying plenty of possession but
singularly failing to threaten in the final third - a steady
succession of crosses falling nicely for Potters custodian Asmir Begovic.

A rash challenge by Cheick Tiote to halt the progress of Jonathan Walters then
gave Stoke the chance to boost the worst away goal record in the division, and
Walters duly obliged from the spot after his recent penalty woes.

That came against the run of play but added a sense of urgency to Newcastle's
efforts and they were soon level in memorable style through Cabaye - slotting
home a fine free kick at the Gallowgate End after Moussa Sissoko was shoved
over on the edge of the area.

The events between the foul and the free kick conversion are worthy of note,
with Steven Taylor apparently trying to haul Begovic to his feet after the City
'keeper threw himself to the ground in apparent agony.

Knowing a fellow thespian when he saw, Taylor's next ploy after pushing and
shoving some defenders was to position himself right in front of the recovered
Begovic and emulate his every movement, to the delight of the supporters behind
that goal.

Retreating back into the wall on a couple of occasions as referee Marriner
looked to have finally restored order elsewhere in the box, Taylor gave Begovic
one further demonstration of his Haka before getting in his face as Cabaye's
free kick nestled in the goal.

Hardly the pinnacle of sportsmanship, but chucklesome and a suitable response
to the Acapulco cliff divers impressions exhibited by various City players. And
like the mugging Kevin Nolan before him, it's not the first time that
we've indulged in such antics just before scoring.

The equaliser coincided with a double substitution for United, Alan Pardew
deciding that there weren't enough Frenchmen on the field and adding Sylvain
Marveaux and Massadio Haidara - the latter for his Premier League bow.

However, the hoped-for assault on Stoke's goal for the winner didn't really
materialise, with neat work from Marveaux in a deep midfield position failing
to inspire genuine opportunities for those further forward.

Still Newcastle persisted though and with rookie reserve Adam Campbell on the
field for his Premier League debut, added time saw him find Marveaux with a
short pass and the Frenchman thread the ball to an unmarked and onside Cisse,
who smashed home his ninth goal of the season.